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Southeast Asia - 'hot spot' extinct
Southeast Asia is currently the extinct 'hot spot' as more species are facing the risk of permanent disappearance, according to the Red List of Threatened Species recent…
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Animals are only in legend
The animals that are born and disappear are the inevitable laws of nature, there are many species we only know about through fossils like tyrants, there are also species…
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Vietnamese gibbons on the brink of extinction
International animal conservation organizations warn, three of Vietnam's six rare ape species are on the brink of extinction, when the number of species decline rapidly.
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Freshwater dolphins are about to become extinct
Scaly dolphins are considered the last surviving mammals on China's Changjiang River, after the river's white dolphin has become extinct. Currently, scaly dolphins of fr…
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The Tasmanian tiger dies
The Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), the size of a dog, the size of a dog living in mainland Australia and Tasmania, was hunted to extinction in the early 1900…
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Discovered extinct rat species
The mouse has the scientific name Crateromys australis, which people used to call the cloud mouse, first collected samples by scientists in 1975 on Dinagat Island, Phili…
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African rhinoceros is about to become extinct
The African Wildlife Protection Agency has just released a report saying that in the last five years there have been nearly 1,000 killed rhinos, suggesting that wild rhi…
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Amur the Tiger has escaped extinction
According to Itar-tass news agency, Safari zoo, Ardeche province, southern France has just welcomed two cubs of Amur at the end of December 2011. This is a rare birth in…
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40 years from now Earth will no longer have fish
Experts warn, life on Earth will reach the sixth extinction stage. Its predecessor was the fifth great extinction that led to the complete disappearance of dinosaurs.
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Great extinct Australian mammals
It was humans who hunted that led to the extinction of large mammals in Australia 40,000 years ago, according to a new study published in Science.
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Rare and endangered striped rabbit
Zebra rabbits have only been discovered for about ten years. They are only available in Vietnam and Laos. According to conjecture, there are only 100-200 children left i…
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Brown bear in Austria for the second time was declared extinct
The International Fund for Nature Protection (WWF) in Austria has confirmed the extinction of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the country after nearly two years of not see…
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2500 species of birds may become extinct because of climate change
American and Australian biologists say that as many as 2,500 birds can become extinct due to climate change, according to UPI news agency.
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Future parks will have prehistoric mammoths
A group of 21 experts and researchers in a recent US seminar gave interesting predictions: The zoo will have more cloned animals of extinct species, headed by mammoths.…
Animal world
Irrawaddy dolphin conservation effort in the Mekong River
On January 12, the Cambodian government, along with a number of international organizations, announced the conservation of the Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin, which is at high…